Work Futures Research Centre (WFRC)

Our people

Learn about our academic experts, from their research interests to their contact details.

Dr Michalis Veliziotis

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Trade unions and HRM practices
  • Quality of work
  • Labour market institutions

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Mina Beigi

Professor of Career Studies

Research interests

  • Work-nonwork interface
  • Understudied careers
  • Career success
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Professor Pauline Leonard BA Sociology,PGCE, MA(Ed), PhD, FAcSS, FRSA

Associate Dean Research & Enterprise

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Rebecca Taylor

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Conceptualising work and the boundaries between paid and unpaid labour
  • Digital labour and work in the digital economy
  • Data, software and ethics

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Shunyu Yao PhD

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Mrs Vivien Xiao Yu

Research interests

  • Work-family/life balance, Work-life boundaries
  • Workplace flexibility, Telework, Remote work, Future of work,
  • Working mothers, Academic well-being
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